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Facebook Launches Bug Bounty Program To Report Data Thieves (cnet.com)
Facebook on Tuesday launched a data abuse bug bounty program, just hours ahead of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to the Senate judiciary and commerce committees in Washington, DC. The bug bounty program is asking for people to report any apps that abuse data on Facebook, and it offers a reward based on how severe the abuse is. From a report: "While there is no maximum, high impact bug reports have garnered as much as $40,000 for people who bring them to our attention," Collin Greene, Facebook's head of product security, said in a post. The new program comes almost a month after the New York Times and the UK's Observer and Guardian papers revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a voter profiling firm, took advantage of a Facebook app to siphon off personal information on 87 million people. The scandal has fanned the flames of a backlash against Facebook by lawmakers and users.
Here is a better idea: do it yourself. You know, actually monitor your website and stuff. It is a radical idea.
Where was all this outrage four years ago?
Appearance of concern for sheeple - how adorable.
Time will take care of that one way or another, darling.
How do I report Facebook?
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly
Circumcision is child abuse.
Facebook Launches Bug Bounty Program To Report Data Thieves (cnet.com)
Hello, I would like to report Mark Zuckerburg please!
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Nah. The Russians will probably nuke it.
I know, I know! You're so very conflicted over the outcome.
Life is not for the lazy.
We have so much data about you, your kids, your family, your friends, your vices, your drugs, your vacations and we leak them like a sieve.
Please tell us who captures your data, so that we can send them a bill.
Thanks a lot suckers^h^h^h^h^h^h^h
There is a difference between using data that was openly available with links to apps that were open to what they were doing with your data to see that you may fit the demographic that would vote for Obama, and have ads that pop up and say go out and vote for me. Vs. Having apps to trick you into figuring out what political persuasion you are and give you a custom message showing how evil opposition is, not just official running, but how all of their supporters are sub-human monsters. Scheduling rallies for the rightest of the right, and protests for the leftest of the left in the same location just to spur up anger and perhaps get some violence.
Facebook is still selling your personal data. The problem was the wrong people got a hold of it.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Get this moron who keeps posting this shit expelled from the USA.
I reported a bug under their last bounty program and they said "while this is a bug, and we will fix it, it's not a 'security bug' so we won't be paying you for reporting it." I hope they die in a fire.
- In Soviet Korea, only old people loose all their bases to Natalie Portman's petrified hot grits overlords.
Why do so many postings and articles use such an awkward opening? It's all over the place: "[person/company] on [day/date] [did something]".
It seems to me that would be much more readable as
If writers are hell-bent on keeping the awkward approach, punctuate it better.
It's still awkward, but at least it better captures what's being attempted.
Every time I see it, I wince inside.
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Excuse me? Faceplant? THEY ARE the data thieves!
Moron? Is he dumber than you?
Can you do what he did then?
Left rage never stops being amusing because you could not give a fuck about what Obama and Hillary did because identity politics is noble.
Obama was worse than Bush and did a lot more damage and all you fucks care about is he wasn't white so he gets a pass.
40,000?
Look, FB, you're facing probable fines with four commas in the US and similar ones in the EU.
Try adding more commas. I'd go for at least two.
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The Russians don't need to nuke what they can buy with blackmail. Trump's ass is for sale to the highest bidder. We know that about him. Who thinks prison is going to change that anyway? Nobody.
Yes, I'd like to report Facebook, Inc. It seems that they have provided APIs through which they sell private data to anyone with a bank account and a keyboard.
Where can I pick up my check?
Check your premises.
... That They Won't Own Up To A Fucking Thing.
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It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
So improper abuse is when you skim data off Facebook and market to those people elsewhere. Proper abuse is when you do a Google search on a product and two minutes later it's in your Facebook feed. Got it-
Cogito Ergo Sum
"It's okay as long as I agree with whose agenda is being pushed"
Captcha: dignity
I posted this in another thread the other day. Some similarities & differences between what the Obama campaign did and what Cambridge Analytica did.
The Obama campaign and Cambridge Analytica both gained access to huge amounts of information about Facebook users and their friends, and in neither case did the friends of app users consent.
But in Obama’s case, direct users knew they were handing over their data to a political campaign. In the Cambridge Analytica case, users only knew were taking a personality quiz for academic purposes.
The Obama campaign used the data to have their supporters contact their most persuadable friends. Cambridge Analytica targeted users and their friends directly with digital ads.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Hey FB, Facebook is abusing data.
Can I have my $40k now?
There is a difference between...say go out and vote for me...and give you a custom message showing how evil opposition is
Bullshit.
Democrats used the data to attack the evil opposition by urging support for MoveOn.org, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Women's March on Washington, etc. And do you really think those protests at Tea Party rallies and Trump campaign stops were spontaneous? All of those were funded and managed by Democrats as attack vectors, and you can be sure they got plenty of help from Facebook.
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Not the agenda. The Tea Party also used social media to push their agenda and brought in a lot of Republicans into the congress to followed their ideals.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Please notify the FBI via Faceberg that you have computer skills enough to find bugs in apps.
GJ moles.
Greetings comrade. How is the weather in Russia?
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
What do Obama and Hillary have to do with this? Every time trump does something bad stop screaming Obama or Hilary. They aren't the presidents. He is. Suck it up cupcake.
Seriously. It's hilarious to watch the mental gymnastics of Google's CEO openly tauting that he's DIRECTLY working with a presidential candidate to "use our data" to help the candidate.
- Facebook sold some ads. Who the fuck reads Facebook ads?
- Google literally used their entire platform (read: tracking your information) + "muh algorithms" to assist a candidate.
And IN RETURN, the CEO got, and I quote, "a virtual open door to access the White House at will"
https://www.googletransparency...
https://theintercept.com/2016/...
https://mashable.com/2009/04/2...
https://www.wired.com/2008/11/...
https://www.politico.com/story...
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
"Eric Schmitt, 'CEO of America' "
And these are LIBERAL WEBSITES running these articles. So you can't even play the whole "alt-right / foxnews / fakenews / Russia-wrote-it" Red Herring bullshit.
Of course, I don't know why we're restricting to Obama either. Under Hillary, they did the same thing (for likely the same quid-pro-quo arrangement):
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.googletransparencyp...
https://qz.com/823922/eric-sch...
https://www.politico.com/magaz...
https://qz.com/520652/groundwo...
So with literally DOZENS upon dozens of professional articles dedicated to the subject from dozens of separate news organizations, anyone who ignores this well-established fact is throwing their head in the sand and humming, and not worthy of a debate response and should be downvoted accordingly for low signal-to-noise ratio.
-> Google did everything Facebook did, and far more.
They want to make sure the only people taking data are the ones paying for it.
"Bug: you business model is based on selling data gathered without permission from users; effectively, this is like the Mafia asking people to help guard their loot. I can't imagine the cognitive dissonance needed to sustain that sort of hypocrisy, so it must be a bug?"
Do you think they'd pay me?
-Styopa
How do you find bugs, when you can run the apps on your computer. Facebook runs them on their server, and you don't get access to that
Another Bug Bounty system from Facebook? Except they have been stealing from security researchers since the first bounty program was started by finding loop holes allowing them to not pay those bounties. They neglected to pay at least 2 legitimate bounties for bugs provided by myself stating that the bugs needed to be fixed in every router in the entire world instead of providing filters for it in their own messaging system which they eventually enabled without the bounty being issued. So essentially, they can make up a reason to not pay you and then fix it in the background and most people are none the wiser.